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For 2,969 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 62% higher than the average critic
  • 4% same as the average critic
  • 34% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 1.2 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 66
Highest review score: 100 The Peanut Butter Falcon
Lowest review score: 10 The Legend of Hercules
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1,702 out of 2969
  2. Mixed: 1,148 out of 2969
  3. Negative: 119 out of 2969
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  1. Things to Come
    [Huppert's] remarkable. So, too, is Things to Come.
  2. Child's Pose
    A Romanian political allegory — in Romanian — might sound like tough sledding, but thanks to a searing performance by Luminita Gheorghiu, Child's Pose is anything but.
  3. Ad Astra
    Ad Astra is one giant leap for telling intimate stories on a grand scale.
  4. Cameraperson
    It’s a uniquely affecting experience, and a uniquely affecting film. Cameraperson shows us the power of image as a tool of recording life, but also finds reasons that even in the worst situations, it’s still worth living.
  5. Land of Mine
    This isn’t a war movie; it’s an after-the-war movie. But the battle lines are still drawn, and every ragged breath the film takes braces for an explosion.
  6. Shutter Island
    It's not a great movie so much as it is great moviemaking. It's basically a potboiler genre film, a B-movie with big talent attached.
  7. Val
    Directors Leo Scott and Ting Poo are armed with seemingly endless self-shot footage for Val, a moving, fascinating portrait of the actor. But disarming is a better word for how Kilmer, reputedly a “difficult” actor, comes off.
  8. Ernest & Célestine
    Ernest & Celestine draws on plenty of classics, animated and otherwise, for inspiration, but the film manages to be delightful on its own offbeat terms.
  9. Blackfish
    Blackfish is a disturbing movie, one that will make you rethink parks like SeaWorld and their value.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Adam Project
    It's not often anymore that you find a film everyone in the family can enjoy, but The Adam Project is that and more. Think "Guardians of the Galaxy" vibes, but a little more low-key.
  11. The Last Laugh
    There are some funny bits here, and younger comics like Sarah Silverman push the limits even farther; to the minds of some, they cross them.
  12. Captain Phillips
    Captain Phillips is a voyage well-worth taking.
  13. Lady Macbeth
    In many ways Lady Macbeth is remarkable for what it isn’t. It isn’t a staid period drama. It isn’t romantic. It isn’t predictable. And it certainly isn’t comfortable.
  14. This Is the End
    The Is the End is a different take on the R-rated comedy, a raunchy laugh riot that actually gives you a little to think about.
  15. Shadow Dancer
    These are characters for whom true belief in a cause has probably become impossible; they know how much that costs. Marsh does a compelling job of illustrating that for the rest of us.
  16. White Boy Rick
    Purely from a standpoint of craft and storytelling, it’s a good flick, although maybe not well attuned to the bombastic times.
  17. News of the World
    It’s not derivative. It’s just familiar. But it also boasts two unique elements.
  18. Cutie and the Boxer
    The love the two have for each other, particularly she for him, is obvious and moving. So, too, is not just the desire to create, but the need to.
  19. The Biggest Little Farm
    Happily, this is a movie about not just idealism but practical idealism, and the struggle that maintaining it requires. It looks drop-dead gorgeous and, despite a few storytelling short cuts, it's unexpectedly moving.
  20. Ingrid Goes West
    Aubrey Plaza is brilliant in Ingrid goes West, Matt Spicer’s smart, satirical and sometimes scathing takedown of the vapidity social media sometimes injects into life.
  21. Romeo & Juliet
    It’s well-staged, well-acted, all the right people die in the end. It comes down to, well, Romeo and Juliet, really, and Douglas Booth and Hailee Steinfeld prove capable in the title roles.
  22. Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
    Wakanda Forever misses Boseman greatly — the entire film is about missing him — but it moves the story forward in a way that seems logical and fitting.
  23. Zootopia
    What it lacks in thematic innovation it more than makes up for with enough memorable characters and visual splendor to make Zootopia a perennial Disney favorite.
  24. Beautiful Creatures
    Beautiful Creatures rises above the rabble thanks to an eminently watchable cast and a sharp screenplay by writer-director Richard LaGravenese.
  25. Dawn of the Dead
    A frenetic movie that combines a video-game sensibility with cartoonish, whacked-out violence. As with all good modern horror, one minute you're laughing out loud and the next you're covering your eyes. [19 Mar 2004, p.1P]
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  26. Casa de mi Padre
    You expect the big joke in Casa de Mi Padre to involve Will Ferrell mangling the Spanish language. Instead, the movie is funny because of just how commendable the actor's Spanish is.
  27. Love Lies Bleeding
    The whole thing runs through Stewart, and she’s great — just one of those movie stars you can’t take your eyes off.
  28. Girls State
    If the purpose of Girls State is to give high-school students a taste of how government works in real life, “Girls State” makes a case that it does its job only too well.
  29. Good Time
    Pattinson is what helps us keep pace. He completely inhabits Connie with his jittery, twitchy efforts — he can’t stand still, so neither can we.
  30. A Ghost Story
    A Ghost Story may be the ultimate litmus test of where you fall on the line between artistic merit and laughable pretension.
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